Chapter 15. Movie Maker and DVD Maker


You want to know why home video's gotten a bad name ? It's because nobody bothers to edit it. A video involving the baby and an upturned bowl of spaghetti? A laugh riotfor about 30 seconds. But 25 minutes of it? Chinese Water Torture, dude.

But this is the amateur -video era. Web sites like YouTube and Google Video have made short, tightly crafted videos an essential form of self-expression (and sometimes, instant celebrity).

Fortunately, Windows Vista comes equipped with the toolsbasic, but realfor editing the video from a camcorder or digital camera, trimming out the boring parts , and dressing it up with credits, music, and so on.

Vista even includes a basic DVD menu-design program, so you can burn your own DVDs, complete with scene-selection screens. Let the creativity begin.


Note: Movie Maker comes only with the Home Basic, Home Premium, and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, and DVD Maker comes only with Home Premium and Ultimate. Apparently, people in companies don't have cameras .



Windows Vista. The Missing Manual
Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596528272
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 284
Authors: David Pogue

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